Car-coupling



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GAR COUPLING.

(No Model.)

No 393,660. Patented Nov., 27, 1888.

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WALTER A. POST, OF NEWPORT NEWS, VIRGINIA.

CAR-COUPLING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 393,660, dated November27, 1888.

Application filed August 30, 1888. Serial No. 284,176. (No modeLl To allwhom it may concern.-

The orifice f is elongated to allow forthe longitudinal movement of thecars.

car, and having two coupling-heads-one on each side of the centralcoupling-head-with 'Pivoted to a plate, I, on the end of the car Be itknown that I, WALTER A. IosT, acitiis a two-armed lever, J, preferablyhaving zen of theUnited States, and aresident of Newhandlesj j at eachend, near the sides of the port News, lVarwick county, Virginia, havecar, said lever J being pivoted at i. A link, 5 invented certainImprovements in Car Ooup- 70, connects the coupling-hook with the leverlings, of which the followingis a specification. J, so that on movingthe lever the coupling- The object of my invention is to so conhook willbe raised clear of the opposite head. struct an automatic couplingattachment that The other arm of the lever is attached to a it can bereadily applied to carsto freightlink, Z,which is connected to alever.n, pivoted IO cars especiallyof the present type without to a bracket,m, on the head F, the lever at removing the draw-head, a further objectof carrying at its inner end a plate, 12, on which the invention beingtoso construct the devices the head of the coupling-hook rests, so thatthat the coupling and uncoupling of the cars when the lever J is movedit will pull the lever may be effected from either the top or sides a,which, in turn,will raise the platen, lifting 15 without the necessityof passing between the the head of the hook of the opposite couplercars. out of engagement with the head F. By hav- In the accompanyingdrawings, Figure 1 is iug these lifting devices on both heads, the anend view of a car, showing my improved brakeman can uncouple the cars bysimply coupling attachment in position. Fig. 2 is a moving the lever-onone car, it being unnec- 20 longitudinal section showing two carscoupled, essary to lift the levers on both cars.

and Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the attach- A rod, t, connects thelever J with a lever, ment removed from the car. K, near the top of thecar, this lever being A is the body of the car; a a,the longitudinalpreferably made in the form of a foot-lever, sostringers;B,thecommondraW-head orcoupler, that by merely pressing thefoot upon said 2 and O is the bumper-block. lever the cars may beuncoupled.

D is a casting, of the peculiar form shown in It will be readily seenthat my invention Fig. 3, and pivoted by means of a pivot-bolt, can beapplied to freight-cars having the orcl, to one of the stringers orcrossbraces, as dinary drawhead, and also to passengercars shown in Fig.2. Projecting up from the plate having the old style couplings, withoutthe 30 D are two heads, E and F, these heads passing necessity ofremoving these couplings.

up on each side of the longitudinal stringers By making the headsinonepiece, I simplify a a, as shown in Fig. 1, so as to be on a line theconstruction and render the device easy of with the coupling 13.operation when in position upon the car.

The head E is slotted, and pivoted in this I claim as my invention 35slot is a hook, G, having a head, which is l. A plate adapted to beattached to a car adapted to an enlarged opening in the head F. andhaving two coupling-heads-one carrying The head F is slotted at f, andhas an ena hook and the other a socket-the said couplarged orifice, f,as shown in Fig. 3, and has ling-heads being adapted to fit on each sideof an inclined face, as shown in Fig. 2, to allow couplings already inuse, substantially as de- 0 the coupling-hook .to ride up and drop intoscribed. the orificef, thus coupling the two cars to 2. The combinationof the plate D, pivoted gether. to the car-frame and provided with twoup- It will be noticed that each plate D carries wardly-projectingheads, one head having an on one side a coupling-hook and on theopinclined face and provided witha soeket,.sub- 4 5 posite sidea pocketor orifice to receive a hook, stantially as described.

so that the cars are doubly coupled by the two 3. The combination of acar having a cen- 5 hooks. tral coupling and a plate, D, secured to thea hand-lever extending to each side of the car, i In testimony whereof Ihnvesigned my name a link connecting the lever 10 the hook oione l tothis specification in the presence of two coupling-head, and n linkconnecting the SllllSCl'llJlllg witnesses.

handlever to a lever carrying a plate in the \VA lillDP A. POST.opposite eonpling-hezul, all acting in unison to couple or nncouple theear, substantially as described.

\Vitnesses:

JNO. 'l. BOSMAN, 'lumus MoLoUo n LIN.

